Gothic Erection-as Foil to Ultra-Modern Skyscrapers: Some Ancient History Arrangement Completed for To-day's Anniversary One more. link with Shanghai of Caldbeck's to go over to the ex-the first half of the last century is charge whenever the firm's telephone Arrangements have now been. now gone, with the razing of the old was not working and arrange with completed by the United Services premises of Messrs, Caldbeck, Mac-the switchboard operator for the Association and allied organizations gregor & Ca, 44 Foochow Road, now necessary repairs, to commemorate this morning, the complete. Work on the new offices eighteenth anniversary of the eleventh About May, 1804, the firm moved will commence in the near future, day of the eleventh month of from No. 7 to No.' Foochow Road, and the building will come as a 1018, when, at 11 am, the order Mr, and Mrs. Caldbeck coming from distinct surprise to those accustomed was' given to "Coase Fire!" and the Waungpoo Road to live in the rooms to seeing severely modern buildings Armistice brought an end to the fon the first floor. On the first rise overnight, for it will be la the four most terrible years of war the floor, No. 4 Foochow Road had the Elizabethan style, complete with world has ever known, 'The pro-then' popular enclosed verandahs of interior courtyard and a gabled gramme this year is on similar lines directors' board-room. Further de-almost mammoth proportions, and to those of the past few yet the bricks used in the building were {ails of, the new premises are being if larger size than are obtainable to-'At 8 am. a wreath-laying ceremony kept as a surprise. Messrs, Palmer Turner are the architect day. Old contractors declare that will take-place at the Cenotaph, these bricks were fired with wood Shanghai's" War 'Memorial on Lot 1045 on which the old building oF "trow, and not with coal, as is the 'Bund, under the auspices of the stood, and on which the new one modern practice; undoubtedly they United Services' Association, when will be built, dates back to the year Were of better quality and stronger British. French, American and other 1047, when it formed part of Lot 55, than the modern blue brick. national allied associations will the property of MacVicar & Ca., and gather to pay homage to the memory then measured 10 mow 0 fun' 7 1
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